Rail-support.



No. 744,830. PATENTED NOV. 24, 1903.

0. A. WEBER & P. R. GOATES.

RAIL SUPPORT.-

APPLIGATION FILED MAR. 18. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

IIMTED STATES Patented November 24, 1903.

PATENT OTTTQE.

GEORGE A. WEBER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AND FRANK R. OOATES, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNORS TO WVEBER RAILWAY JOINT MANUFAC- TURING CO., OF NEYV YORK, N. Y. A CORPORATION OF IVEST VIRGINIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,830, dated November 24, 1903. Application filed March 18, 1903. Serial No. 148,290. (No model.)

To ztZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE A. WEBER, a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and. State of New York, and FRANK R. COATEs,a resident of St. Paul,Minnesota, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail- Supports, of which the following is a specification accompanied by drawings.

Our invention relates to rail-joints, but more particularly to supports for the same; and its objects are to improve upon the construction of such joints and increase their efiiciency while obviating the inconvenience arising from the creeping of the rail-chair due to vibration.

Further objects of our invention will hereinafter appear; and to these ends our invention consists of a rail-joint for carrying out' the above objects embodying the features of construction, combinations of elements, and arrangement of parts substantially as hereinafter fully described and claimed in this specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a rail-joint embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same.

Referring to the drawings, A and B represent the meeting edges of two adjacent rails supported upon a suitable rail-chair O, comprising the base D and the upright E.

Suitable fish-plates F and G are arranged adjacent to the webs of the rails, while a suitable packing-block H is arranged between the fish-plate G and the upright E of the railchair. Bolts I, passing through the fishplates, the webs of the rails, the block H, and the upright E of the rail-chair, secure the parts together, suitable nuts being provided upon the bolts.

We have chosen to illustrate any suitable form of rail-joint in connection with the railchair C; but; our invention is obviously applicable to many different kinds of joints and relates more particularly to the supportingchair 0.

We have discovered that the tendency of the rail-chairs and their supporting shoes or plates is to travel away from the edge of the chair or plate that digs into the tie J, this travel being due to vibration. Furthermore, the tendency of such digging into the tie is to interfere with the bringing to gage from time to time when the rails have spread, as they will do. The edge of the chair that digs into the tie forms a ridge or shoulder upon the tie.

According to our invention the tendency of the chair to travel is obviated by construct- 6o ing the chair with a slightly-inclined surface or bevel K at the inner edge of the chair, so that the inner edge cannot act upon the wood of the tie.

According to our invention it will tl1erefore be seen that the chair or rail-support is provided with an upward incline on the inner margin of its lower surface, or, in other words, the inner margin of the plate'is tapered at one edge and has its lower face inclined to the general plane of its base.

Obviously some features of our invention may be used without others, and our invention may be embodied in widely-varying forms.

Therefore, without limiting ourselves to the construction shown and described, nor enumeratingequivalents,we claim, and desire to obtain by Letters Patent, the following:

1. A rail-support adapted to be secured to a tie, and provided with an upward incline extending for a substantial distance on the inner margin of its lower surface for subspecification in the presence of two subscribstantially the purposes set forth.

ing witnesses.

2. A rail-chair having a rail-supporting l GEORGE A. WEBER. plate or base, provided with an inner mar- FRANK R. COATES. 5 ginal portion that is slightly inclined up- Witnesses as to signature of George A.

ward, for substantially the purposes set forth. Weber:

3. A rail-chair havingan upright and a HORATIO S. SOHROEDER, rail'supporting plate or base, the inner mar- HARRY S. BENTLEY. gin of whichbaseis tapered and has its lower Witnesses as to signature of Frank R.

Coates:

A. MUNSTER, G. H. HERROLD.

(0 face inclined to the general plane of the base,

for substantially the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof We have signed this 

